Corporate Downsizing and Its Impact on Human Resources Management in Libraries and Information Centres (Published)
Corporate downsizing has become a strategy of choice by a multitude of organizations worldwide. The prime impetus for most downsizing activities is the desire to attain higher levels of efficiency, effectiveness, profitability, and competitiveness. The adoption of downsizing has shown to have considerable impact on the organization and its many stakeholders. There is strong evidence suggesting that the consequences of downsizing are persistently negative. Indeed, numerous organizations around the world embarking upon downsizing have failed to accomplish their highly anticipated objectives. It has also been shown that the execution of downsizing is not confined to economic and organizational realms, but has profound after-effects upon all stakeholders. Corporate downsizing continues to be a major strategy used by organizations to cope with a dynamic and turbulent global marketplace. A fundamental assumption made by executives is that this strategy improves the financial health of the corporation. Organizations go for downsizing to increase their efficiency and reduce costs but it may result in dissatisfaction among employees. This paper therefore investigates the perceived impact of corporate downsizing on human resource management with particular reference to library and information centres.
Keywords: Corporate Downsizing, HRM, Information Centres, Library
Job Satisfaction & Bankers Turnover: A Case Study on Bangladesh Commerce Bank Limited (Published)
The purpose of this paper is to present and test a model that identifies employees work related attitudes enhances organizational goals in relationship with the practices of Motivation, job security and job satisfaction in Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd. This paper, therefore, aims to identify the relationship among the factors such as motivation, job security and job satisfaction of employees works related feelings. The sample for this study was the current employees of Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd. Printed questionnaires were distributed among 18 respondents and all the questionnaires have been collected and taken as the data for the research. The data has been analyzed with SPSS 17.0. In this study, the Correlation value was satisfactory, which proved that the items of questionnaires are appropriates with this study.
Keywords: BCBL, Bankers Turnover, HRM, Job Satisfaction